Graphical Highlights
 
Nationality and Court-by-Court Disparity in Asylum Decisions

      Judge Denial Rate (%)
Number Decided Judges Lowest Highest Range
Nationalty City 32,236 79 7.3 94.6 87.3
China All
New York* 24,164 34 7.3 92.8 85.5
Los Angeles* 2,958 19 17.3 90.5 73.2
Philadelphia* 665 3 57.4 90.7 33.3
Newark* 1,037 6 16.5 71.8 55.3
Chicago* 345 3 67.4 78.2 10.8
Haiti All 14,110 31 15.9 99.1 83.2
Miami* 12,229 25 32.6 98.5 65.9
Orlando* 1,055 4 15.9 88.7 72.8
Colombia All 13,648 28 2.0 96.4 94.4
Miami* 11,060 22 15.7 96.5 80.8
Orlando* 2,212 4 2.0 44.9 42.9
Albania All 3,603 23 5.6 96.3 90.7
New York* 2,397 17 5.7 96.2 90.5
India All 3,517 17 15.3 91.5 76.2
San Francisco* 3,360 16 15.3 91.5 76.2
Indonesia All 2,129 10 68.8 100.0 31.2
Philadelphia* 1,374 4 82.5 98.2 15.7
Ethiopia All 1,334 7 30.9 86.9 56.0
Baltimore* 946 4 30.9 57.1 26.2
Arlington* 388 3 55.2 86.9 31.7
Cameroon All 1,148 4 44.6 67.0 22.4
Baltimore* 1,147 4 44.6 67.0 22.4
Armenia All 1,109 9 17.2 66.4 49.2
Los Angeles* 1,109 9 17.2 66.4 49.2
Iraq All 769 5 30.2 75.0 44.8
San Diego* 345 3 32.4 72.5 40.1

* Table includes all nationalities with at least four judges who decided 100 represented asylum cases and with at least 3 judges per city. Judge-to-judge differences are all "statistically significant" (<.0001). This means that the natural variation in specific circumstances presented in asylum requests from a country does not account for the judge-to-judge disparity in decisions where cases are assigned at random.

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